nerve block

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noun Medicine/Medical.

an arrest of the passage of impulses through a nerve by means of pressure on the nerve or by injection of an anesthetic into or around the nerve.

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Origin of nerve block

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby nerve block

Nerva, nerval, nervate, nervation, nerve, nerve block, nerve cell, nerve center, nerve centre, nerve cord, nerve fiber

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How to use nerve block in a sentence

Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.
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During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.
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Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?
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After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.
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If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.
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It was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
I hadn't the nerve to stand there and tell her she'd never see her father again this side of the pearly gates.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick

British Dictionary definitions for nerve block

nerve block

noun

induction of anaesthesia in a specific part of the body by injecting a local anaesthetic close to the sensory nerves that supply it

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